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Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (Inscribed to a poet) by Bukowski, Charles

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Title: Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (Inscribed to a poet)
Author: Bukowski, Charles
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bensenville, Ill: Mimeo Press / Publishers of Ole, 1965. First edition. Near Fine. One of about 500 copies of the first edition, this one elaborately inscribed by Bukowski to Los Angeles poet Jack Grapes: "For Marcus J[ack] Grapes - Who welds the sad tear to the face of it. Our songs our nothing songs ache like teeth. Tomorrow: no teeth. Boy o boy! Charles Bukowski 1-28-66." Publisher's illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 24 unpaginated leaves, 2 blanks, alternating colored leaves: maize, white and pink. Minor toning to wrappers, still a Near Fine copy. Jack Grapes is a Los Angeles poet, publisher, and former editor of the poetry journal ONTHEBUS (1989-2017). Notably, Grapes' poems appeared alongside Charles Bukowski's in an issue of the short-lived but influential Loujon Press literary journal The Outsider (1960-1969). Bukowski also corresponded with Grapes and inscribed several books to him. In the spring of 1965, Grapes, then a young poet with a burgeoning career, wrote to Bukowski to share his chapbook This Thing Upon Me (titled from the first line of Bukowski's poem "Old Man, Dead in a Room") and to ask for advice from the more experienced writer. In Bukowski's response, he praised Grapes' poetry chapbook ("the first 4 lines of poem 10 are as good as anybody can write") and added, "Well if you want advice from an old man - the writing comes out of the living and if you've got to sell-out to stay alive, sell as little as possible, save what you can. it's when you give it all up to them that you are dead. don't be in a hurry to make it. it's more important to sit around in the sunlight or sleep. it will come along if you let it...I am honored, of course, that you 'stole' the title THIS THING UPON ME, and hope that you find some poems in CRUCIFIX. I have signed some pages, one of them to you, must get them in the mail so the people can get their books. It seems so strange to be signing pages. is this the way it happens? your turn now. hail, Buk" In the "long short story" Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bukowski introduced the world to "Henry Chinaski," his alter-ego and favorite anti-hero. Krumhansl 17. Near Fine.

Stampkraft Mother Goose and Other Rhymes

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Title: Stampkraft Mother Goose and Other Rhymes
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: United Art Publishing Company, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, very good. Front cover cracked at hinge but still attached. Interspersed throughout the text are blank rectangles in the center of which the reader is to affix the corresponding stamp. In this copy all of the stamps have been affixed, and thus are complete. Wonderfully illustrated by an unknown hand with the b&w's in text. Quite scarce. Precedes the 1919 Barse edition.

Cinema Quarterly: Vol. I (Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4) & Vol. II (Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4), 2. Vols. set (Complete) [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF PAUL BURNFORD*] by Wilson, Norman (Edited by); Forsyth Hardy (Review Editor)

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Title: Cinema Quarterly: Vol. I (Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4) & Vol. II (Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4), 2. Vols. set (Complete) [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF PAUL BURNFORD*]
Author: Wilson, Norman (Edited by); Forsyth Hardy (Review Editor)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+
Description: Edinburgh: G. D. Robinson, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g+. Large octavo. 245, [3], [2], 262pp. Contemporary olive cloth, with gold lettering on spines. Paul Burnford's Ex Libris on inside of each front cover. Complete collection of the first eight issues (two years) of "Cinema Quarterly" a film magazine published in Edinburgh, Scotland between 1932 and 1935. Featuring regular contributions from John Grierson, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg and Alberto Cavalcanti, the magazine became a critical centre for the emerging British Documentary movement. Some of Grierson’s defining pieces on Documentary cinema first appeared within these pages, championing and defining ‘Documentary, or the creative treatment of actuality’ as a ‘new art.’ Forsyth Hardy would serve as review editor and Paul Rotha as London correspondent. In later years, the magazine would increasingly include contributions from noted literary figures, including Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and Somerset Maugham. The magazine was renamed "World Film News and Television Progress" in 1936. After changing its name for three issues to "SEE: World Film News", the magazine ceased publication at the end of 1938. Each issue contains from 8 to 10 pages of b/w photographic reproductions depicting mostly movie scenes. Some of the documentaries and movies featured in this work are the following: Robert J. Flaherty's "Man of Aran;" Stuart Legg's "The New Generation;" Fritz Lang's "M;" Sergei M. Eisenstein's "Que Viva Mexico!;" Eric Waschneck's "Zwei Menschen;" Arthur Elton's "Voice of the World" (a documentary dealing with the manufacture of radio sets and the influence of wireless); E. Dzigan's "Woman" (a Soviet film dealing with the 'fuller' life experienced by women in the USSR); Andrew Buchanan's "Dance Flaws;" René Clair's "Le Quatorze Juillet;" G. W. Pabst's "Don Quixote;" Alexander Korda's "The Private Life of Henry VIII;" Rouben Mamoulian's "The Song of Songs;" George Roland's "The Wandering Jew;" Jean Vigo's "Zéro de Conduite;" Alfred Hitchcock's "Waltzes from Vienna;" Basil Wright's "Windmill in Barbados;" Pudovkin's "Deserter;" etc.. Head and tail of spine rubbed and partly chipped. Moderate and sporadic age-toning along paper margin. Bindings in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition. *Paul Burnford (1914-1999) produced or directed over 100 academic films, on subjects ranging from zoology, to history, to art. Documentarians John Grierson and Paul Rotha offered Paul his first professional job as a film maker, and became his mentors. His first film was “Rooftops of London”, followed by “Statues of London.” Paul also made a film about the hardships of the miners in Wales, and later worked for MGM in London. Having made a name for himself as a documentary film maker, he was officered a job as head photographer at the London Zoo by Sir Julian Huxley, the famed biologist and scientist, and soon Burnford became known for his filming of animals. Many years later, when the San Diego zoo opened, Sir Julian was there to be honored for his work in modernizing zoos, and asked Paul to join him. Burnford later used the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park in Escondido as locations for many of his films. In the mid-1930s, he edited Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film "Qué Viva México." In 1939, when he was 25 years old, Burnford’s book “Filming for Amateurs” was published, and was soon in use as a text book in the film school at the university of Southern California. In the World War II era, Burnford arrived in the U.S. as a drafted civilian, working for the British Ministry of Agriculture in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Based in Washington D.C., he was soon making films about crop conservation, flying over the Midwest and shooting various farmlands. He was never allowed to edit his film or even see a finished project, but instead was instructed to take his footage to an office in Rockefeller Center. Sometimes he, with film in hand, would board a camouflaged military transport, and be flown back to London, to deposit the film there. He was under strict orders not to contact any friends or family while in England. As later revealed in William Stevenson’s "A Man Called Intrepid," microdots were placed on such films made by various filmmakers as a means of carrying intelligence between the United States and Great Britain. Through friend Sidney Solow, Burnford was introduced to Samuel Mayer, and soon began a short tenure as a director of short films at MGM, and worked on George Cukor’s “It Should Happen to You.” He also served a short stint at Columbia Pictures. Burnford soon realized that he wanted to run his own film company and be more in charge of the end product. Along with teacher Irwin (Irv) Braun, he founded Film Associates, a company specializing in educational films. Every film he made won an award. Paul was now recognized as one of the top educational film producers. Eventually, Film Associated was bought by CBS and merged with Bailey Films to become Bailey Film Associates (BFA). From that point onward, he worked as an independent producer.

BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS by Butler, Arthur G.

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Title: BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS
Author: Butler, Arthur G.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London; nd. [ca.1896-99]: Brumby and Clarke. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Quarto. In six volumes, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk in black & white with the birds eggs presented in color. Each volume bears a different bird classification as adopted by Howard Saunders in his Illustrated Manual. Bound in 1/4 dark red cloth over red cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt; small owner's name neatly embossed on front free endpaper; internally clean and bright with tissue guards present over eggs. A lovely, near fine set.

Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life: The Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, the Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, the Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years Ago by Yaggy, L.W.; Haines, T.L

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Title: Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life: The Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, the Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, the Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years Ago
Author: Yaggy, L.W.; Haines, T.L
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Western Publishing House, 1883. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Minor wear to corners, a couple light spots on boards. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1883 Half-Leather. xiv, 15-944 pp. 8vo. Original half leather, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, marbled page ridges, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plates and inset illustrations throughout text. An overview of ancient life, with chapters on Pompeii, Troy, Nineveh and Babylon, the Bible, and treating subjects such as the Coliseum, musical instruments, domestic utensils, agriculture, painting and sculpture, literature, and funerary practices.

Versi sciolti di tre eccellenti moderni autori. by [Arcadia] Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni; Francesco Algarotti; Saverio Bettinelli.

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Title: Versi sciolti di tre eccellenti moderni autori.
Author: [Arcadia] Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni; Francesco Algarotti; Saverio Bettinelli.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Bassano: Remondini, 1795. Good. 16cm; 298 pages. Bound in original publisher's boards. Boards worn with worm trails present at joints and extending to first two leaves of text. Text somewhat shaken in binding. A few leaves are dog-eared, but text is generally clean. Book bears several manuscript ownership marks of Carlo de Herra (fl. 1800-1850). De Herra apparently owned the book in his youth, and claimed it by writing his name on the upper board (dated 1791), and on all three edges of the text block. The book is protected by contemporary wrappers fashioned out of an envelope addressed to Ferdinando de Herra, with remains of original red wax seal. Pen trials on upper flap of wrapper. Verse epistles by three of Arcadias most representative voices. The Accademia degli Arcadi was a literary fraternity (and by imitation, a literary style) established at the end of the 17th century with the aim of replacing extravagant baroque fashions with more serious and rational expression. This collection first appeared in mid century, and was frequently reprinted.

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume XXV. by American Research Center in Egypt.

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Title: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume XXV.
Author: American Research Center in Egypt.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1988. Very Good. 28 cm; 257 pages. Printed wraps.

SECOND CHANCES by Adams, Alice

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Title: SECOND CHANCES
Author: Adams, Alice
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394568249
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Knopf, 1988. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Adams on the title page to which she has added "Thank you . I loved your letter -. All best wishes." Faint scuff on front board; dustjacket has minimal rubbing. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Adams' seventh novel.. Signed By Author with Note. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chelsea & Derby China by Bedford, John

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Title: Chelsea & Derby China
Author: Bedford, John
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. navy cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper
Description: New York: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks.

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